The Rooftop Blog- Ernie Payton: The Music Will Never Die May 1, 2017You didn’t have to spend much time with Debbie’s Dad, Lt. Col Ernest Payton (The Salvation Army), to know that his life revolved around music. Whether it was following, along with Joan, the riffs of a Big Band song on … Continue reading →
- Eulogy for my mother September 18, 2016Harriet Louise (Speer) Jewell (January 26, 1927-September 11, 2016) We celebrate through tears the crescendo of a long goodbye We gather here to celebrate our mother, grandmother, great grandmother, friend; and for the crescendo of a long goodbye. We’ve … Continue reading →
- Can 4 weeks change the trajectory of a life? October 12, 2015It’s great to discover an opportunity to make what may be a lasting difference in the life of a person who really needs to catch a break. We’ve found one, and we’d like to share it with you. Through an … Continue reading →
- Abraham Lincoln’s 2nd inaugural address: 150 years ago March 4, 2015March 4, 1865 Fellow-Countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement somewhat in detail of a course to … Continue reading →
- Resurrection and Grief February 4, 2015My friend and colleague, Chuck, is with his family this week, gathered to bring ease–as best they can—as granddaughter Olivia slips from this life. A Trisomy18 baby, Olivia was born to live in this world briefly, a month-long, difficult prelude … Continue reading →
- Protecting Marriage: Ironic promotional language for a session at the forthcoming NRB Convention January 30, 2015The headline of a promotional email for a session at the National Religious Broadcasters convention reads: “Protecting Marriage: How to Get the Media Message Right for This Generation.” So how can we explain Protecting Marriage to this generation? (By which … Continue reading →
- On Veterans Day: Memorabilia from My Father, the WWII Veteran November 11, 2014My father was a World War II veteran. Veterans of these battlefields of the last century are now bowed men in their eighties and nineties speaking hesitantly about their colleagues and their service a lifetime ago in the killing fields … Continue reading →
- Brett Walls’ Magnificent Journey against Locked In Syndrome and United Health Care Paralysis October 28, 2014CHICAGO — Two blocks east of Chicago’s posh Magnificent Mile on Michigan Avenue, in the shadow of the spectacular John Hancock skyscraper, sits the world’s leading hospital and research enterprise in physical medicine and rehabilitation, the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. … Continue reading →
- A Milestone Birthday for Debbie Jewell: Celebrating a Life Well Started September 3, 2014When you reach milestones that begin with crooked numbers, it is common to reflect on years gone by and their results. Today we’re celebrating the milestone birthday of a remarkable woman whose 50 years have been time well-spent. Debra Elizabeth … Continue reading →
- Autopsy Abuse Gets Personal August 13, 2014When race car driver Kevin Ward Jr. was run over and killed by NASCAR star Tony Stewart on a track in upstate NY Saturday, we saw self-destructive machismo at its worst. Many think Steward didn’t try very hard to stay clear … Continue reading →
- Ernie Payton: The Music Will Never Die May 1, 2017
Category Archives: Social services
A personal account on international Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27
Thursday marked the international remembrance of the Holocaust, remembering and learning from the horror of the Holocaust, set on the day when Auschwitz was liberated, January 27. The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews is one group that is active … Continue reading
America’s fastest growing church to feed 5,500 unemployed families at Christmastime
The people of 12 Stone Church in Gwinnett County, Georgia, north of Atlanta, responded in miraculous ways to Pastor Kevin Myers’ holiday challenge to express their faith through generosity, with the miracle of Jesus’ feeding of the 5,000 as their … Continue reading
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Tagged 12 Stone, Christianity, Christmas, compassion, unemployed
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What is the role of followers of Christ in the public arena?
As we close in on an important election day it is a good time to ask this question: What is the role of individual followers of Christ in the public arena? By this I do not mean solutions presented by … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Church and State, Compassion Ministries, Creation Care, Culture, Environment, Ethics, Evangelicals, Family, Homosexual Issues, Jim Jewell, Philosophy, Politics, Pro-life, Social services, Virtue, War and Peace
Tagged Character, Christian leaders, Christianity, Church and State, creation care, evangelical leaders, family, international aid, politics, pro-life, social justice, theology
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20 Million People Forced from their Homes by Floodwaters in Pakistan: Here’s How You Can Help
One fifth of Pakistan, 20%, is under flood water, with 20 million people forced from their homes. Those are amazing figures; it’s a terrible disaster with a huge toll on individual lives, family and community life, and on a nation … Continue reading
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75 years of finding God in a time of trouble
Bill Wilson turned from alcohol after a dramatic encounter with God in 1934. As David Brooks tells us, Wilson “went on to help found Alcoholics Anonymous, which, 75 years later, has 11,000 professional treatment centers, 55,000 meeting groups and some 1.2 million … Continue reading
As Colson, Mohler and Others Release Video Series on Social Justice (Yes, Social Justice), It’s Time for Glenn Beck to Apologize to Christians
It really is past time for Glen Beck to apologize to Christians for his equating the church’s work in social justice with Nazism and Communism. He’s not just enraging liberals; he’s become an embarrassment to conservatives. And on this point … Continue reading
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Leaders of the Evangelical Generation: John M. Perkins. Community organizer
[I am working on a project that may become a book on the most influential evangelicals leaders of our generation, since 1976, and the impact they’ve had on the church and their times. I will introduce them briefly on this … Continue reading
ChildVoice Helps Heal Two Former “Wives” of LRA’s Jospehy Kony
Among the previously abducted child mothers at the ChildVoice center in Uganda are two former wives–kidnapped at ages 8 and 10–of LRA leader Josephy Kony. Article on the girls in The Guardian in the UK, and soon on BBC.
Greening the Hood
Mission Year president Leroy Barber of in-town Atlanta has an interesting take on the importance of healthier environments in urban settings. See his blog post on “greening the hood.”
Letter from Heaven; Good-bye to Millard Fuller
Yesterday I received a letter from heaven, and while it certainly seemed odd, it was the news that an old friend had died that shocked and saddened me. I am grieving for the dear wife and family of a truly … Continue reading
